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vandalism that was rampant in his day in destroying such 
interesting archaeological structures for utilitarian purposes. 
He says, “Above the head of the River Ock, by Ashbury- 
park, is a camp of a figure as near round as square, t 
diameter above an hundred paces and the works single, but the 
works are now almost quite spoiled and defaced by digging for 
the sarsden stones as they call them) to build a house in th 
ene to the Lord Craven.” 
Our Honorary Fellow, Mr. Edward Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S., 
was one of a committee of gentlemen formed for this object, 
and at my request sent out some fragments broken from sarsen 
stones for comparison with our local examples. : 
j given rise to a somewhat extensive 
most county histories (where they occur), geological textbooks, 
encyclopaedias, dictionaries, and newspaper correspondence. 
Many conflicting theories have been advanced to account 
for the origin and distribution of the sarsen stones, but it is 
England. The beds consisted of sands and fine gravels (gen 
ably of different geological ages), the greater portion of whic 
remained unconsolidated and has been removed by denudation, 
“Geology of nd and Wales," 1876, p. 363; W. | 
Age of the Grey-wethers,” Jour. . Soc. of London, ibid 
e p. 271; E. C. Spicer: “Sarsen Stones in a acd Fi : d 
[71 eo 
A Physi E Monckton 
E vu de ; A. C. Ramsay: 
Geography of Great Britain," 1872, p. 126; H: Y: as Report 
Notes on the Sarsen Stones of the Bagshot’ District," Bepo 
Brit. Assoc. Adv. Science (Southport), 1903, p. 
